Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-01-21
TIE CCU2 D ETAT. i

Tic history o: zHspo1aoa Ills Great
Y Cine, Written by Els Fresect Of
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A book dcstine'. 20 excite much curl
osity md anger will be issued in . few
days ii Psris, entitled Memories sur
10 Second Empire" It is in reality a
history of the Cd of December, 1851, re-
lated By HI. de aIaupas, Project Of po-
ice at Chat time, one Of the first insti-
gators Of the coup d etat, and one Of
it's wcrraest and boldest actors.
the arrests were all to be made by
police commissaries. For month I
had sent for each OF these officials to my
office, and had selected for the most i'm
portant commissions those whom !
deemed the most rcsolute. With sin
gle exception found the utmost devo-
ton. All who were to act on the I'd
had been warned not to leave home, and
received orders at q am to be at the
Prefecture Of Police ct spe cited time,
between 3 and half-past 1. Five min
utes were allowed each officer. On ar
irving they were kept apart and intro
duced singly into my Office to receive
my instructions. It is always blunder
at such . moment to say more than is
necessary, and I told each commissary
what arrest he was to make, not letting
him know that he was sharing in o gen
eral measure.
about eight o'clock I had all tho
minutes of arrests, and most of the COM
rlissaries, on coming back from Mazas,
had seen me.
AS to M. Theirs, his arrest was q
strange scene. Awakened out of bis
sleep by the entry Of the police commits,
sary. he was seized Win positive terror
on hearing that he was being arrested.
HIS words were incohercnt: HE did
not want to be arrested; he was not a
criminal; he WAS not conspiring; he
would henceforth ROMAN stranger to
politics; he was going abroad" All
this was said with great volubili5v,
w.t. Mr.. Hubault. the commissary.
beink able to put in o word. But when
his first agitation was over, and the
commissary had persuaded him
that his life was in no danger,
he recovered himself, and the illustri-
GUS orator, sitting in his bed, COM
menced to hold forth as if he had been a
simple spectator of what was passing.
TO the request to rise and dress him
self he replied by a sin OCULAR proceeding,
from which it hould have been more
dignifed to abstain. Then, still I'M.
clad, he approached piece OF f,rni.
ture in order, he said, to take q pair Of
pistols. If blew your brains out,
said he, and added, DO you know that
1 am armed, and that it would be very
excusable If treated you like male.
factor" M. Hubault soon claimed hi.
bellicose humor by showing him that h
himself was armed; but NJ. Theirs had
regained confidence, and he began jest.
ing in way altogether out of harmony
with the situation, betraying Oh
effolt to conceal his real stats
Of mind. This painful scene
lasted upward of quarter of an hour
M. Theirs was evidently anxious to gair
time. What hope had he? M. Hu
banlt at length insisted on his dressing
and in few moments he was beside The
commissary in the carriage awaiting
him outside. The attitude of NJ Theirs
then suddenly changed. His first ter.
ror revived You are going to shoot
me- he said; Il see you are leading me
to DEATH Then, once more treasured
as to his life, he tried to ascertain
whether he alone had been arrested
He tried, by promising considerable
sums, to obtain permission to escape
from Mazas. At Mazas he fell into {
state of complete prostitution, and was
treated with the greatest care"
The most e1 extraordinary thing is thu
80 many persons were aware Of the in
tended coup d elat, and that nobody
betrayed the secret. This is unprsce
dented.